2023-05-14 12:26:00
It was to a sample of Stronger, Kanye West’s hymn to success, that Alexander De Croo took the stage this Sunday in Ghent. Without ties, the sleeves of his white shirt rolled up to the elbows, like the worker who is regarding to plunge his hands into the grease, the Liberal looked more like a campaign candidate than a stuck Prime Minister. in his official costume.
For this third day of the Open VLD congress, the strong man of the Vlaams Liberalen respected all the codes of the message he wanted to embody: you have to kill gloom and pessimism if you want to live in a country “strong and free”.
After emphasizing the bravery of the Ukrainians in their fight once morest Russian aggression, the head of the federal government called on those listening to him to show the same courage to face the various crises and conflicts of tomorrow.
For the Liberal Democrats, this requires a frank positioning for “do not be sidelined by extremists, communists and nationalists”. It also involves drawing a line under negativity and lamentation.
”I’m tired of the Rue de la Loi being filled with politicians who want to score points with their pessimism and their gloom, and make our country sink into the doldrums”, said Alexander De Croo in the great hall of the sports complex ‘t Kuipke, charging the N-VA which puts confederalism back on the political agenda. “After Brexit, Vlexit. It will undoubtedly be another great success”he quipped before reloading his punchline weapon.
Sander Loones, the N-VA sniper: “Belgium has a problem, it helps those who do less and pulls down those who go up”
“A divided country will never be a strong country. I say it even more clearly: a politician who does not believe in our country will not improve it either. Behind the call for a new major reform of the state, there is only one strategy and one intention: to paralyze our country once more for 500 days and more. This is the strategy of decay and stagnation. That of political blockage and contemplation of one’s own navel. When exactly the opposite is what we need.”
This strong speech once morest the nationalists comes as there is talk more than ever of a rapprochement between the PS and the N-VA. On Saturday, the president of the N-VA Bart De Wever indeed called for the rapid establishment of a “mini-cabinet” with the PS following the next legislative elections in 2024 to avoid a new stalemate in endless negotiations.
But not all of his bullets were aimed solely at the Flemish separatists. Some were aimed directly at government partners, these “socialists”which, placed in the same box as the “communists”, “see only one solution to all problems: the state”.
Those, “you have to dare to put them in their place” because they wantblock our economy”.
De Croo curries Paul Magnette: “If I were him, I would work on the number of unemployed in Wallonia”
The head of Vivaldi then fired on those who defend the “subsidized public jobs instead of trusting our self-employed”. One thinks of course of the PS, but also of the trade unions or even Ecolo who largely likes to subsidize the association. For the Prime Minister, it is not necessary to create more public jobs, it is simply necessary to put more people to work.
As Paul Magnette, Alexander De Croo’s new nemesis, pointed out on May 1, employment will truly be a central theme in the electoral campaign. Campaign that seems to have already started well.
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